... stated by Lord Kimberley to sympathise with the Fenians, whether the occupant of Dublin Castle is a Whig or a Tory. Whether the Lord Lieutenant be a Whig or a Tory, he must be equally the enemy of conspirators whose aim is to wrest Ireland from the sovereignty ...

... Reform Bill, through the amendment, for of that there is no evidence whatever. We should even question whether the Whig instinct to keep a Whig Government in place was strong enough to induce this section of the party to accept not only the Government, but ...

... been guilty of the unpardonable sin of disbelieving in pure Whiggery, and therefore it has long been the fashion among pure Whigs say all sorts of hard things against that able member of the House of Commons. The advanced Liberals, who are at present ...

... present Ministerial crisis is one of no ordinary importance. What we witness just now is not merely change of Government from Whig Tory, brought about in the old-fashioned manner, on a principle not dissimilar from that by which the rotation of crops regulated ...

... these debates will show that the importance those branches of reform cannot be over-estimated. It was conclusively proved that Whig and Liberal proprietary interests were favoured by Ministers, and the partiality was so apparent that the Government were compelled ...

... profess sympathy with that sort of partizanship which believes that party Government is to be perpetuated in this country by the Whigs always bein in power. We do not believe in that, for the simple reason that such a state of things would be the destruction ...

... disappointment, if not humiliation. The Conservatives cannot pass a satisfactory Reform Bill. They do not, any more than many Whigs, believe in the importance the object for which such a bill is most urgently, although not solely called for, the admission ...

... bribed, there at any rate no distinction, in this respect, between the political parties The Tory cannot say to the Whig, nor the Whig to the Tory, I am better than thou, for both parties are in the same transgression. One gentleman states that the C ...

... into the Liberal ranks in pauperis forma, and who even now, although a Liberal, does not answer to the description of a pure Whig. ...

... declaration of war against the working classes, could, if it so chose, serve them in this matter fully more effectually than the Whigs. The Tories have been understood to rather like the duty of protecting working people against their employers, and hence they ...

... question, brought in a fragmentary measure, a measure which settled nothing, one of those bit-by-bit schemes to which the Whigs, including their leader, had always been opposed. This was done in deference to a section of the Liberals, who, till within ...

... The Ministry seem to have thought that if they made it all right with the Member for Birmingham they could easily compel the Whigs, or moderate Liberals, to vote for the bill whether they liked it or not. The result not bearing out this expectation. It is ...